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Bernie Sanders: “We spend $14,000 a year per person on health care, almost…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Most European countries live, people there live longer lives. Japan, they live even more longer lives than in Europe. So question number one. Why is that happening? We spend $14,000 a year per person on health care, almost double what any other country spends. And yet people around the world are living, on average, four years longer than we do. (23:13–23:21)

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